Monday, September 15, 2014

In a paper presented during the annual IFIP International Electronic Government Conference, held in Trinity College Dublin, Hans J. Scholl analysed the status of research in the electronic government domain. The paper, that is already published and available by Springer, is titled "The EGOV Research Community: An Update on Where We Stand" and contains findings from tracking and analysing the eGov research publications for more than a decade.

The Electronic Government Reference Library (EGRL) is an ongoing project at the University of Washington to create and maintain a comprehensive reference library dedicated to academic electronic government literature. From its first public release in 2006, the number of entries in the reference library has grown rapidly to thousands of references. With the release of version 10 in April 2014, the EGRL has reached a volume of more than 6,500 references and 9,000 researchers - authors.

Based on the H.J. Scholl recent paper, among the top-50 scholars in this domain there are 6 university professors from Greece, in the following rankings:

Rank Name University

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#08 Yannis Charalabidis University of the Aegean, Samos

#17 Efthimios Tambouris University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki#20 Konstantinos Tarabanis University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

#22 Dimitrios Askounis National Technical University of Athens

#24 Euripidis Loukis University of the Aegean, Samos

#45 Gregoris Mentzas National Technical University of Athens

The countries with more than 2 representatives in the top-50 scholars list are the following: